drollery

At his most winning despite his character’s lethal nature, Gyllenhaal keeps up the one-liners and drollery.

The result was an interview brimming with drollery and repartee, as they talked about the rumours of a Beatles reunion, the future of rock music, and life with the Wings.

And Pierce, maximizing the situational drollery, treats the character as though he were kin to one of the Gilbert & Sullivan figures he performed with aplomb in his apprenticeship days.

But for all the drollery, the performance seems carved in a marble of suffering.

But mostly when aiming for drollery, the songwriters overshoot and wind up at operetta.